SCIENCE

What are the key parts of a microscope?
Course focus is to on the image.
Stage clips are to hold the slide in place so it won't move.
Fine focus knob is to focus on the image but makes minor changes.
You see through
Stage is to put your slide on.

How did you set up your microscope and microscope slides?
To set it up the microscope you pick it up by the neck and the base. Then you would put then light bulb box on the light source. After you put your slide on the stage you look through the eye piece lens and see what's there.

What did you observe down the microscope? I was looking at plant cells.          

What are key similarities differences between plant and animal cells?
The similarities are the cell membrane, Cytoplasm and nucleus.
The differences are that animal cells don't have large vacuole, cell wall or chloroplast.

What was discovered using a microscope?
Robert Hooke discovered cells back in 1663.

Types of microscopes
The Compound Light Microscope.
The Stereo Microscope.
The Digital Microscope.
The USB Computer Microscope.
The Pocket Microscope.

Science

Digestive System

Oesphagus
Where is it: It's connected to your mouth and stomach.
Function: It's let's the food go through the stomach after being swallowed.
Structure Is a long, thin and strong tube that connects to the mouth and stomach. When you swallow food the walls of your oesophagus squeeze together which makes the food go down faster.
Weird example: It takes 7 seconds for for to travel through the eseophagus. 

Stomach
Where is it: It is below the oesophagus.
Function: Is a big elastic bag that can hold lot's of your food. It usually holds about 2 - 4 litres of food. It can hold food for 2 hours or longer.  There's a part where the lining had a acid which will break down foods.
Weird example: When your face turns red (blush) your lining of the stomach also turns red.

Small intestine -
Where is it: Bottom of your stomach.
What is it used for/ how it works: It's where 90% of the food is digested and absorbed.  The other 10% is the stomach and the large intestines. The villi is also part of the small intestines it helps nutrients get absorbed into your blood.
Weird example: The small intestine is much longer than the large intestine, but the large intestine is much wider than the small intestine.

Large intestine -
Where is it: Around the small intestine
How it works:  The job is to absorb water from the remaining indigestible food matter.
What is it used for: The major function of the large intestine is to absorb water from the remaining indigestible food matter and transmit the useless waste material from the body.


Liver -
Where is it: The right side of your stomach
What is it used for: The main functions of the liver is to filter the blood from the digestive tract before passing it to the rest of the body.
Weird example: It hold 10% of blood in your body. It pumps around 1.5 liters through itself. 

Percussion

What is a Percussion?
The Percussion is an instrument that has to be struck or scraped by a beater.

A famous one armed Drummer is Rick Allen. Rick Allen's band is called Def Leopard.
I think that my rhythm was okay but not the best because I couldn't get the rhythm . Overall I think that the drums are okay.
 

 Drum labelled

The Guitar

What is the difference between an acoustic guitar and electric guitar?

The body. The acoustic guitar strings are heavier.  Electric guitar strings are less spaced out. Acoustic guitar is more bigger.

Find three musicians that are famous for playing the guitar.

Eric Clapton, Slash, Jeff Beck. 

What kind of musical ensembles can guitars features in?

They can be featured in orchestra.

Who is Bon Jovi?
Bon Jovi is an american rock band formed in 1983.

Facts about Bon Jovi.
Bon Jovi isn't his real name.
His first song was in star wars theme.
The band belonged to him.
He is charitable.
He was turned down by record company's.

Did I enjoy the guitar?
I thought that the guitar was okay it wasn't my favourite.

What I thought was challenging about playing the guitar?
I think that it was hard to play because the strings were to far from each other because I have small hands. It was also kind of hard to change cords.